Art to Watch: September Gallery Guide “Gale Antokal – Some Drawings” and “Some Painting, Sculpture and Drawings” at Patricia Sweetow Gallery In one room hang remarkably sad, quiet sketches by Gale Antokal – hazy silhouettes and fading figures, whispered onto canvases through impossibly delicate chalk work. Compare this iciness to the gallery’s other room, a […]
RBPMW Fellows: Jarrod Beck, Andrea Cote & Fred Hayes August 25 – September 8, 2011 Opening: Thursday, August 25th 2011, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Blackburn 20|20 RBPMW is pleased to announce the opening of RBPMW Fellows: Jarrod Beck, Andrea Cote & Fred Hayes. This is the last of three exhibitions presenting the work of […]
May 24, 2011 By Anita Mohan Embodying Experience: A Conversation with Artist Gail Wight Tucked away in an almost bucolic spot on the Stanford University campus, conceptual artist Gail Wight’s well-lit studio bears witness to her love affair with art and science. A large bookshelf and reading nook showcases her wide-ranging reading interests — from […]
Please click here to read the article Let’s start at the very beginning, at the inception of the idea. Can you describe the moment when you first decided to propose an exhibition of contemporary artists using clay and ceramics, and also say a little about what prompted you to make the proposal? Alexander Tovborg (AT) For quite a […]
Monday, April 18, 2011 by Leah Garchik The arts: — “Manhole 452,” Jeanne Finley and John Muse’s exhibition at the Patricia Sweetow Gallery until mid-May, combines a series of charcoal and graphite drawings of Geary Street manhole covers with their 12-minute film about the possibility that those covers will blow up. (Most fascinating footage was […]
April 12, 2011 All that glitters Jamie Vasta updates Caravaggio for the literary queer By Matt Sussman HAIRY EYEBALL What happens to appropriation after camp? That’s the intriguing question posed and answered by Jamie Vasta’s glitzy and technically impressive homage to late 16th- and early 17th-century Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, currently hanging at […]
22 mar 2011 By Nanna Skov (translated into English) Linda Sormin’s sculptures appear as weathered mixes of different ceramic materials (Photo: Linda Sormin) Doctors can be used for anything other than Christmas decorations and homemade ashtrays. In the hands of Canadian Linda Sormin, the clay is used to express themselves about complex social and social conditions. As […]
Zina Al-Shukri PAINTER, SAN FRANCISCO // MARCH 2011 “Often I’m most proud of individual pieces rather than bodies of work. Sometimes I manage to hit on exactly what I’m trying to say in just one painting. That’s what I’m after.” Zina’s studio sits in a massive, somewhat dilapidated building on an industrial tract of land […]
New American Voices a 4-Course Art Feast Roberta Fallon Feb 16, 2011 Crazy-happy collage paintings, mournful costumes, wizardly sculptures and candy-colored sweaters with pleatsNew American Voices at the Fabric Workshop and Museum is a four-course feast. The works, by artists recently in residence at the FWM, dont quite go together, but each artist is […]
ACTOR Natalie Portman is the star of Black Swan but there’s another striking aspect about the film. A print by Melbourne artist Sarah Amos, who also works in the US, appears in a crucial scene in a loft belonging to ballet director Thomas Leroy, played by Vincent Cassel